Jose Yves Limantour

Jose Yves Limantour (26 December 1854-26 August 1935) was Secretary of Finance of Mexico from 6 May 1893 to 25 May 1911, succeeding Matias Romero and preceding Ernesto Madero.

Biography
Jose Yves Limantour was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1854 to a French ship captain from Brittany and his Mexican wife, and he wrote for the legal journal El Foro from 1877 to 1882. He became a respected intellectual and an advisor to President Porfirio Diaz, and he served as his Secretary of Finance from 1893 to 1911. He supported expanded intellectualism and prosperity in Mexico, supported modernization, and supported expanded freedom, and he encouraged Diaz to resign in 1911 during the Mexican Revolution. Limantour then joined Diaz in exile in Paris, France, where he died in 1935, largely forgotten.